Rubber stamp.



Y PATENTEDMAY 16, 1905.

J.F.TENNEY.

RUBBER STAMP.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 24,1904.

UIITED STATES Patented May 16, 1905.

JAMES F. TENNEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RUBBER STAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,890, dated May 16, 1905.

Application filed September 24;, 1904. Serial No. 225,838.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMEs F. TENNEY, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rubber Stamps, of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming a part hereof, is a full and complete description, sufiicient to enable those skilled in the art to A further object of the invention is to obtain a holder of the kind named wherein stamps of varying numbers of lines may be successively set up and wherein the letters will be at all times firmly maintained in position with no probability of the same dropping from the'holder or being pulled therefrom in the use of the stamp.

A further object of the invention is to obtain a holder of the kind named which will be simple in construction, durable, and not liable to get out of order.

In the drawings referred to, Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of a stamp embodying my invention with the rubber letters and quads which are shown in Fig. 2 removed therefrom. Fig. 2 is a perspective of a holder embodying this invention with rubber letters contained therein constituting a rubber stamp. Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of the rules or reglets of the holder. Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of the intermediate reglets shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 5 is a view on line 5 5 of Fig. 3 in the direction indicated by the arrows, showing a sectional view of one of the reglets of the device, an elevation of one of the thumbscrews, and an elevation of the nut on the thumb-screw. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the holder embodying this invention on line the stamp will be as light as possible.

6 6 of Fig. 1 viewed in thedirection indicated by the arrows.

A reference-letter applied to designate a given part is used to indicate such part throughout the several figures of the drawings wherever the same appears.

A is a band extending around the body part B of the holder. The band A is preferably of metal and is of greater depth or width than is the depth of the body part B, as is well shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings, and the several letters or types and the quads used to form the stamp contained in the holder are set within the band so that the bottom of the body part of such type and quads rest on the table formed by the body part B. Such body part B is preferably made of wood, so igat or the same reason the mechanism about to be described is made so that the strain thereon -when the stamp contained in the holder is locked up is inward. WVhen so made, the band A may be of thin metal, as is shown in the drawings.

C C are spacing-reglets, and C C are slots or recesses in=the ends of reglets C C.

D is a reglet, hereinafter termed the locking-reglet, which is preferably turned over at its edges, as at cl (Z, in order to strengthen the same and also to hold the nut F from turning on the thumb screw E when such thumb-screw is rotated. Locking-reglet D is provided with holes d cl, near the ends thereof, through which holes the screw-threaded thumb-screws E E easily extend. The bolts E E are respectively provided -with screwthreads 6 thereon at one end thereof and with thumb-wheels e e at the other end. The nuts F F are respectively provided with screwthreads engaging with the screw-threads e e on the bolts E E.

0 0 Figs. 1 and 6, are the ends of the bolts E E, and such ends are respectively swaged outwardly to prevent longitudinal movement of the bolts when the same are turned.

The nuts F F, being mounted on the thumbscrews E E and held by the turned edges (Z (Z of locking-reglet D from rotating, are thereby attached to and form a part of such reglet,

and it occurs that when such thumb-screws are turned the nuts are moved laterally on such bolts, and when the holder is filled with rubber type the turning of the thumb-bolts in the proper direction will draw the lockingreglet D against the type, thereby locking what may be termed the form of the stamp in place.

G G are the rubber type of the stamp, and G G are rubber quads used to fill out the lines of the form to near the bolts E E in the ordinary way of using quads for such purpose.

Metal letters or type and metal quads may be used in this holder, if desired; but as the stamp made therein is desired to be used as a hand-stamp I find such metal type to make the form too heavy, and I therefore heretofore used rubber type.

When the reglets C C and locking-reglet D are parallel to the sides of the holder, as the same are when type is contained therein, as in Fig. 2 of the drawings, they cannot fall or be taken out of the holder, as the recesses C C in reglets (LC hold the same on the thumbscrew or thumb-bolt F, and the hole in. the lockingreglet D loosely fitting over such thumb-screw holds such locking-reglet in the holder. When there are no type in the holder, the several reglets O C may be removed therefrom by placing such reglets diagonally in the holder so as to disengage the thumb-screws from the slots or recesses O C.

I is the handle of the holder.

When a stamp is built up in this holder, it is locked in place therein by turning the thumbscrews E E, and thereby drawing the lockingreglet D against the lower line of the form that is, against the line adjacent theretoand such locking-reglet is made sufficiently rigid, as by the turning over of the side edges d OZ, to lock the form the entire length of such reglet D. i

The stamp built up as described in this holder is used in the ordinary way of using a rubber stamp and pad.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a holder the combination of a base, adapted to have rubber type set thereon, a band around the base, extending above the base, reglets respectively provided with recesses in the ends thereof adjustable on the base, screw-threaded thumb-bolts rotatably mounted in the band above the base and adjacent to the ends thereof, such bolts extending through the recesses in the ends of the reglets and an additional reglet provided with means for connecting such reglet to the screwthreads on the thumb-bolts; substantially as described.

2. In a'holder the combination of a base adapted to have rubber type set thereon, a band around the base and extending above it, screw-threaded thumb-bolts rotatably mounted in the band above the base, and laterallymovable reglets mounted on the bolts, the one of such reglets which is adjacent to the screwthreaded end of the bolt provided with means to connect such reglet to the screw-threads thereon; substantially as described.

JAMES F. TENNEY.

In presence of D. GoEBEL, (101m A. ADAMS. 

